Fishers reiterate demand to recover debris of sunken boats
The Hindu
Minister promises immediate action
Fishers have reiterated their demand for help to remove the debris of sunken boats off the coast of Kochi, where six fishing boats have sunk during the course of a month.
The most recent incident involved Kutty Aandavan, a gillnet boat from Nagapattinam, which ventured out from the Kochi harbour on October 30. Fishers on board were saved by those in the vicinity of the site, north-west of the LNG terminal on Puthuvype island.
Efforts are on to bring ashore the remains of another boat Ashiqmon that sank off the Kochi coast on August 31. The trawling boat has been hauled and brought close to the channel where passenger boats operate, said Charles George of Matsya Thozhilali Aikya Vedhi, an independent fishers’ union.